HASS HDR Symposium

You are warmly invited to attend the November HASS HDR Symposium, taking place on Tuesday 16 November via Zoom.

Room ONE	Room TWO
Meeting URL: https://uonewcastle.zoom.us/j/88088642088?pwd=VWYxSjRmdWRGd3NtRmN2WEFyTkFxUT09&from=addon Meeting ID: 880 8864 2088 Passcode: 636459	Meeting URL: https://uonewcastle.zoom.us/j/83842612270?pwd=K09BcWx0a1lhRU5iS0dXQkNiMzI5dz09 Meeting ID: 838 4261 2270 Passcode: 275353

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9am: Keynote address - Dr Honae Cuffe (room one)

	Room ONE	Room TWO
9:30 - 11am	Chair: Professor Marguerite Johnson	Chair: Associate Professor Bill Palmer
	Matthew Howe (MPhil - History) -  Greek Fire: Tracing the uses of 'fire' throughout Greek literary history Thomas Sharples (PhD - History) - The flawed monster that won't die: Conversion therapy in the West Madelaine Sacco (PhD - History) - Miracles and folklore: The Madonna in Maltese story and rhyme	Laurits Knudsen (PhD - Linguistics) - Environmental interaction and spatial grammar: A fieldwork-based investigation of linguistics intercommunity variation Page Maitland (PhD - Linguistics) - An investigation of language change and contact effects on aspect and mood in languages of New Guinea Susan Makhloof (PhD - Linguistics) - 'DeYa understand?': A phonological study of ESL Arab learners' listening comprehension of English weak forms
11:30 - 1pm	Chair: Associate Professor Nancy Cushing	Chair: Dr Kath McPhillips
	Amanda Wells (PhD - History) - Red sand to orange oasis: Establishing Cooltong at the cusp of environmentalism Christopher Beer (MPhil - History) - Ordinary outliers: The suburbanisation of the Central Coast, 1946 - 2001 Jodi Vial (PhD - English) - It tells me you have gone on, singing	Stewart Limpus (PhD - Soc/Anth) - Neo-Pagan identity and ritual in a modern Australian context Milo Kei (PhD - Soc/Anth) - A study into class, political participation and the School Strike for Climate movement in Australia Suman Lahiry (PhD - Soc/Anth) - Scoping self-care models of queer mental health in the Hunter New England local health district, Australia
2 - 3pm	Chair: Dr Kit Candlin	Chair: Associate Professor Steven Threadgold
	Ian Berger (MPhil - History) - The Battle of Marathon: Evaluating aspects of Herodotus' Histories using experimental archaeology and reenactment Vijay Vaidyanathan (MPhil Classics) - Stasis in Hellenistic Asia: Civil Violence, socioeconomic tensions, and interstate politics from Alexander to the Mithridatic Wars	Tim Gentles (PhD - Soc/Anth) - Environmentalism and everyday politics in Australia Mohamed Mohamed (PhD - Soc/Anth) - Quality of life in Muslim ethnic communities in regional Australia: Exploring the influence of Islamic social values and social integration

3:30 - 4pm: Student Forum

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Event Information

• Date:  This event was held on Tuesday 16 November 2021